Etymologically, the word springs from nation, which itself springs from the Latin word natio, which means birth, nation, and people. Catholics, in the Protestant mind, were beyond redemption; they were evil itself. This clearance rate is the number of cases solved and brought to trial by police forces. But Chicana feminists and particularly Chicana lesbian feminists have begun to transform the story of Malinche into a mirror of Chicana resistance against female slavery to patriarchy—be it the brown patriarchy of La Raza or the overarching patriarchy of the white father. One February evening in on the UCLA campus, as I walked to Lot 3 from what is now Broad Plaza after a full day of research in the CARA archives at the then Wight Gallery, I remember staring at the full moon shining down over the sculpture garden and saying to myself, with absolute clarity and certainty: I am going to teach here one day.
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